Group Show: ‘Polaroid’
Helsinki Festival 2012, Helsinki
18.08.2012 - 02.12.2012
The Polaroid company regularly gave artists cameras and film, and from their responses it built up a huge, nostalgic collection of photographs. Vienna’s WestLicht Museum acquired the European section in 2010, some of which can now be seen by the Finnsih public.
The WestLicht collection contains 4400 works by 800 artists from 1970–90, from which Chief Curator Anna-Kaisa Rastenberger, Museum Director Elina Heikka and from WestLicht Chief Curator Rebekka Reuter made a selection of ca. 300 images.
The Finnish component has been compiled by critic Otso Kantokorpi and photographic artist Martti Jämsä. Next to the original Polaroid artworks, contemporary images taken on new Impossible Instant Film are also represented.